 If you liked
Hotori: Tada Saiwai wo Koinegau
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 ...then you might like
Metropolis
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Both movies alternate between being heartwarming and heartwrenching, putting difficult moral decisions in the hands of children. In both settings, robots are commonplace, and both movies deal with the ethics of creating and interacting with sentient robots - in Hotori, the main character is a robot created to resemble a couple's deceased child, while in Metropolis, several of the many robots that make up the city's slave underclass are clearly as intelligent as the humans around them, and robots that look like humans are illegal. Both also have slice-of-life aspects as their young characters explore the worlds around them.
Though both movies feature very young major
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